Re: JDBC connection issue

[Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Young Nam wrote:

> The default directory for the postgresql.jar is
> /usr/local/pgsql/share/java/postgresql.jar I've run >jar -tf
> /usr/local/pgsql/share/java/postgresql.jar and the class files seem to
> be in the right order.
> 
> I've added the following line to the pg_hba.conf to test local
> connections via jdbc driver.
> local	all	all	127.0.0.1	trust

You need to use "host" not "local" here.  Local is only for unix sockets 
which cannot be used with Java.

> Added CLASSPATH to bashrc file
> export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/pgsql/share/java/postgresql.jar:${CLASSPATH}
> 
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver
> 

When you check the classpath with something like echo $CLASSPATH is it set 
as you specified?

Kris Jurka